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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 October 1924, Page 4

Persistent reports, have been current at Halcombe, the Wanganui Chronicle’s correspondent writes, that the meat works at Kakariki, which cost about a quarter of a million, have been sold for £60,000. The correspondent, however. discredits the story. If he does not pay the amount of his arrears (£9 13s), due in respect of an order under the Destitute Persons Act. together with the costs of his arrest (if any), Rangi Howe will have to abide by a sentence of one week’s imprisonment with hard labour which was passed in the Hawera Magistrate’s Court to-day

Taranaki contributed £5782 to a total of £46,705 which was raised in New : Zealand during the Salvation Army 1 Self-Denial Week. Details of the various amounts raised by the various divisions are: Auckland £10,790, Christchurch £8049, Dunedin £8024, Palmerston North £8221, Taranaki £5782, Wellington £5839. “It is impossible to make a statement ] as to when electric power will be , turned on for Eltham till full tests of j the dairy company’s plant' have been completed,” stated Mr. H. G. Carman, chairman of the Taranaki Electric Power Board, in answer to an inquiry bv the Eltham Argus. A pile of tangled wood, which an enterprising citizen has bought for a pound, is all that remains of an ancient Greymouth, landmark that stood in Boundary Street, near Victoria Park, until a party of house-breakers, acting under Health Department instructions, obliterated it the other day. The aged occupant has found new quarters at the Old People’s Home. And so another phase of old Greymouth closes. “I shouldn’t be a bit surprised,” said a prominent Hawke’s Bay wool dealer to a Daily Telegraph reporter, “if the average price of wool sold in New Zealand at the.coming sales will range from £25 to £25 10s. per bale, if one is allowed to judge on present values. Certainly the price per bale last year was considerably higher, working out at something like £29 10s,” he went on, “but one must remember that the year before that the bale only fetched about £22 odd.” “If,” continued the dealer, “the £25 per bale is realised, and assuming that the Dominion bench absorb 500,000 bales, this would mean that the producers would net a cash return of something like £12,500,000, less the amount for handling, storage, brokerage, and other charges. Yes.* there is money in wool,” he concluded. Twoi young ladies living at West Ryde, N.S.W., who returned from the theatre on the last tram one night recently, were proceeding home/ when they noticed that a man was following them. The girls ran, but the man was overtaking them when they suddenly turned on him. “Two of us ought to be a match, for him," one of the girls said. Breathlessly the other girl agreed. The attack was so unexpected that the man was completely taken off his guard. When the ladies started to pummel him with their attache cases he fell, and they left him lying on the ground. The wauld-be assailant is believed to be a man who has caused uneasiness in the neighbourhood. A'few nights before the ' latest incident a young lady returning alone from a dance was attacked in a | loneLy and was being severely handled, when her cries for assistance [ brought help. The culprit made his [ escape. '